This is the Season Finale for Potential Infectious Diseases. We're looking at the potential of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Could it become a pandemic? How would an outbreak affect the food supply? Let's find out.
Avian Influenza Research
Naming of Influenza Viruses:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/h1n-what-wading-through-the-alphabet-soup-of-flu-names/
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-meaning-numbers-next-h-and-n-avian-influenza-designations?qt-news_science_products=0#qt-news_science_products
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/types.htm
Avian Influenza as an Emerging Disease:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5n1/case-definitions.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147957108000088?via%3Dihub
https://europepmc.org/article/med/19618616
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147957108000088
Epidemiology, Etiology and Pathology:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6246153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459363/
https://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/clinical.html
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/poultry/avian-influenza/avian-influenza
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK553072/
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-021-01504-4
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/professionals/genetic-characterization.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579119360328
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/influenza-(avian-and-other-zoonotic)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/avian-in-humans.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/virus-transmission.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18403604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2329826/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145305X99000786
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/viruses/change.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001451/

Jump Theory:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948863/


Leptospirosis mimicking hantavirus:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30882283/
https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/Documents/Diseases%20and%20Conditions/Hantavirus%20.pdf
https://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/IllnessandDisease/Hantavirus
Parasitic Infections:
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxocariasis/biology.html
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/zoonotichookworm/index.html
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